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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Flabby.
(b) Husky.
(c) Frail.
(d) Thin.

2. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?
(a) He was killed during military service.
(b) She ended the engagement when she learned he had cheated.
(c) He walked out on her and never returned.
(d) He left her for another woman.

3. Where did Salvatore go to have a good look at Assunta before deciding whether he would marry her or not?
(a) Church.
(b) The beach.
(c) The cafe.
(d) Her house.

4. Whom did Assunta have "nothing but harsh words for" (7)?
(a) Salvatore's mother.
(b) Her former fiancé.
(c) Her children.
(d) Salvatore's former fiancé.

5. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would rather marry his own brother.
(b) He would marry her.
(c) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.
(d) He would rather die than marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

2. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

3. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?

4. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?

5. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

2. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

3. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

4. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

5. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

6. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

7. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

8. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

9. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

10. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

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